THE BALKANS: Southern Relatives

Only well-known European language which
even remotely resembles the difficult Magyar tongue is Finnish. Mainly
for this reason, sentimental Hungarians consider the Finns "our
northern cousins." Last week Hungarians were dismayed to hear of the
Soviet invasion of Finland. At the same time fear of the Russians came
nearer home with disturbing occurrences on their own Russian (recently
Polish) frontier. Red Army soldiers, it was reported, fired on
Hungarian sentries. More important, Hungarian military authorities
seized large batches of Communist propaganda pamphlets shipped into
eastern Carpatho-Ukraine, the mountainous district which Hungary...